So after four seemingly endless years of late nights, my $30k of student debt and a pair of engineering degrees later, Emily and I waved goodbye to the student life and were excited to get on into the real world. We moved back to the big city and started looking for the “big money making jobs” that everyone promised our educations would deliver. Six months into our searches, we both landed stable jobs with modest entry level salaries working for respectable companies. We worked our 9 to 5s, wiped out the nagging student loan, and put aside some funds for the future.
We tied the knot two years later and pooled together all our money for a downpayment on a condo in Toronto. We were young and dreamed of exploring the world for all the unimaginable wonders it would possess. We decided that we would go see some of them. We raided the tombs of the Pharaohs, climbed Kala Patthar for a view of the world’s highest peak, and marveled the beauty of Angkor Wat at sunrise. The world, as they say, was our oyster.